Time and Other Temporal Terms in Polish Proverbs

From the New Book of Proverbs and Proverbial Polish Expressions edited by Julian Krzyżanowski, proverbs proverbial expressions containing word “time” other various temporal terms were collected. The aim article was to describe paremiological works folk culture, taking into account semantic (what image time – maybe concepts), functional (purposes for which they used in everyday life, what clues gave based on a noun) structural (temporal paremies, like all such constructions, have specific ossified structure, fixed syntactic schemes) aspects. In addition lexeme time, measures (names segments, seasons, names months days), calendar are described. Among words thematic field there about 150 lexemes - periods, incl. general names, months, days week. beliefs constituted communicated texts culture refer, inter alia , man's idea as being omnipotent against man is powerless; something powerful that human cannot resist. Time endowed with attributes supreme being. show inevitability passage accompanying aging processes living creatures. construction makes them easier remember, e.g. building rhymes. Paremias can take form comparisons, antitheses, metaphors or allegories conveying some thought, reference situations life experience person.